Farmers – Host a Gleaning Day!

Are you a farmer with surplus produce? Gleaning Network UK are appealing to farmers across the UK to join in and allow volunteer gleaners to harvest their unsold produce for charity! It’s free and minimum hassle, and ensures your surplus produce gets to people in need!

For more info on how to host a gleaning day, just download our info sheet:

Getting Your Unsold Food to Charity

When you host a gleaning day, we ensure your produce gets to a fantastic cause, helping people in need. Here are some of the main charities we donate gleaned produce to.

FareShare are the largest redistributor of food surplus in the UK, and work with all the major supermarkets – last year they saved 12,336 tonnes of food from going to waste, equal to 25.8 million meals, and served it at 5,589 charities.

FoodCycle are a national charity that combines volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces to create tasty, nutritious meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation. They run over 29 projects across the UK.

Speaking Out About Food Waste

We provide a safe platform to speak out about buyer practices which may lead farms to waste food – this is entirely optional.

If you’d prefer to speak anonymously, there is also the option of anonymously contributing to our research on food waste. For instance, see our report on food waste in Kenya. This research helps influence food waste policy around the world.

Feedback have high level meetings with supermarkets to pressure them to reduce their food waste, so if there are any concerns you have, we can relay those problems (anonymously if you wish) and push for policy changes to ensure a higher proportion of your crop gets to market. For instance, as a result of its Kenyan investigations, Feedback managed to convince Tesco to change its policy on trimming green beans, saving 135 tonnes per year of food from being wasted.

If you believe you are the victim of Unfair Trading Practices, like last minute order cancellations or changing of quality specs, then we recommend you report it safely and anonymously to the Groceries Code Adjudicator. Feedback are also gathering anonymous evidence to share with the Groceries Code Adjudicator, and can offer advice on what to submit – please contact us at edd@feedbackglobal.org